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#biblioasis Biblioasis Publishing Novels, Fiction, SS, Non-fiction, Poetry biblioasis.com [email protected] [email protected] WINNER – French-American Translation Prize, 2025 Biblioasis is a Canadian independent bookstore and publishing company, based in Windsor, Ontario. Founded by Dan Wells as a bookstore in 1998, the company began publishing books in 2004 with poetry collections by…

. . . I want to record all this, I want to write down that everything is all right, the end of the world is behind us anyway, no machine guns in sight, only the signs of another oncoming flood, it’s early, and at the other end of the train tracks she’s gradually woken up by the seagulls, and the room in which she opens her eyes looks different, in her slumber she may not even comprehend  what’s…

Books for November: The Haunted Bookshelf series by Biblioasis in Ontario, Canada, with illustrations by Seth. A delight! These vintage ghost stories, not usually Christmas themed, are perfect for reading on a wintry day or even a sunny afternoon.

The boy sticks his head all the way out and his black hair whitens, the ground lies everywhere beneath a thick layer of the sorrow of angels, no grazing either in pasture or on beach, all the livestock kept inside and the farmers counting every hay-blade going into them, in some places little remaining but leavings  and the animals bleat and low for a better life, but the clouds are thick and no…

The sea on one side, steep and lofty mountains on the other; that’s our whole story in fact. The authorities, merchants, might rule our destitute days, but the mountains and the sea rule life, they are our fate, or that’s the way we think sometimes, and that’s the way you certainly would feel if you had awakened and slept for decades beneath the same mountains, if your chest had risen and fallen…

If one could paraphrase Tolstoy’s famed opening line of Anna Karenina within the context of just one aspect of the family dynamic, the bond between mothers and daughters, one might suggest that all happy mother-daughter relationships are alike, yet each unhappy mother-daughter relationship is unhappy in its own way. Or would the contrast be peaceful and conflicted? Or close and distant? For…

A Case of Matricide By Graeme Macrae Burnet Graeme Macrae Burnet has always captivated readers with his ability to weave narratives that resonate with earlier literary traditions. His novels, including “His Bloody Project” and “Case Study,” skillfully navigate the complexities of the postmodern era, all while maintaining a profound respect for the genre’s roots. I have a particular fondness for…